The Good Lord BirdModern · Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical
The Good Lord Bird
2013 · 417 pages · Fiction
43
Modern
★ 3.96 on Goodreads · 40K ratings
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Fiction) winner (2013). 3.96★ from 40K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
43Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers38 out of 100 · counts 50%+22
- Buzz1 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #157 of the 256 historical novels we rank
- #223 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #788 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- National Book Award (Fiction) winner (2013)
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